Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

Paul Blackburn — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:31:33 GMT

Ditto a previous question. Does anyone know a keyboard shortcut for log off (not lock, just log off)

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

markinaz — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:14:33 GMT

In Windows XP, if you hit RUN and then type a period, your Documents and Settings folder will open. Is there a similar shortcut for Vista?

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

dhalgren — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:17:49 GMT

This is my personal favourite:

Ctrl-space (which up until Windows XP has always worked fine for me) no longer functions for any of its former purposes, as it's been hijacked by the language bar.

Ctrl-space now calls up the language bar and changes the input language to Chinese (Taiwan). I do not speak, understand, use, or need this language. I have removed it from the list of installed languages in the "Text Services and Input Languages" dialog. I have disabled the language switching hotkeys under Advanced Key Settings. It doesn't matter. Windows Vista knows that I really really did want to switch to Chinese, and helpfully keeps the Ctrl-space combo bound to "switch to Chinese" no matter what I, in my innocence, try to tell it.

Even better, there is no checkbox to disable advanced text services, like there was in XP. Using the MS knowledge base, I learned that you can do it by using regsvr32.exe to unregister msimtf.dll and msctf.dll, except that even running this as admin helpfully errors out with "permission denied" (0x80004005).

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

wrocnrob — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:47:42 GMT

Does the annoying new toolbar have a name?

Mircosoft's own web tutorial doesn't indicate aname this new mystery bar or a way to shut it off.

I made a cool screenshot with a cool little post note, but I have nowhere to send it.

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

hubcarter — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:50:51 GMT

Anyone know of a shortcut for log off when multiple accounts exist on vista..Only one I can find is 'lock/switch user'.

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

Nick White — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:24:28 GMT

Hey VistaLove: I usually just hit the Windows key, then hold the right arrow and then hit 'u'. Give it a try.

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

VistaLove — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:58:34 GMT

Question?

Has anyone figured out a shortcut to shutdown?

Somebody make my day and say YES!

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

VistaLove — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:55:35 GMT

Estanaway, sounds like your Windows Key is stuck or jammed because what you have described is exactly what would happen if you held the winkey and then hit the vowels you mentioned.

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

Nick White — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:31:42 GMT

Hey estanaway: you're best off posting your question to a Windows Vista public newsgroup, as we're not equipped to provide tech support on this blog: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx.

Best of luck, sounds like a frustrating experience.

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

estanaway — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:56:32 GMT

Vista Problem

At times when I am typing an email, something in Vista will switch on and every time I type a vowel it opens some applett. Last night I was typing in a text chat to my instructor and got Dav typed in then My Computer Opened. I then pressed the U key and Ease of Access Center opened. I know I didn't press the Windows Key on accident when this problem occured and I couldn't shut it off, I had to reboot my entire system so I could type again. Does anyone know of another fix for Vista, besides a baseball bat. I have been using Vista for about 2 months and am ready to give up on it and revert all my machines to XP until Micrsoft comes out with a better OS. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric Stanaway

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

Nick White — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:38:17 GMT

Hey Ally-J: sounds like a question the folks in the newsgroups are better equipped to troubleshoot: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx.

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

Ally-J — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:34:06 GMT

One additional piece of info on my problem. The problem did not start until we installed Vista.

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

Ally-J — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:20:04 GMT

I'm not sure if this is a shortcut or not...but it is driving me CRAZY! In all programs, when I type the letter "t" my cursor will jump to another location on the screen. How can I stop this?

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

chakkaradeep — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:50:23 GMT

A most useful shortcut is missed here, lol

If you have 10 items in your quicklaunh, you could invoke each one by winkey+[0-9]. For example, if IE is in the 3rd quicklaunch icon, I could open IE by winkey+3 :)

Its 10 becoz we have numbers from 0-9 , lol

re: Exploring keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

Zoltan — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:00:03 GMT

Nice article! Do you know maybe some more shortcuts?